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E. TWIOHELL. AUTOMATIC REVOLVING MANUSCRIPT HOLDER.

No. @3979. Patented Aug. 11, 1885.

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AUTOMATIC REVOLVING MAN USCRIPT-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,979, dated August 11, 1885.

Application filed October 16, 1884.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE E. TWIGI-IELL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Highland, in the county of Sullivan and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Revolving Manuscript-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates especially to devices for holding manuscript, music, or any written or printed matter, for the use of speakers, readers, singers, &c., and has for its object the provision of a device cheap and simple to construct and efl'ective in operation.

My invention consists, essentially, in a casing, preferably made in the form of a book,

said casing containing parallel rollers, upon which the strip of manuscript or other article is wound, said rollers being actuated by a suitable spring-train, which draws the manuscript from one roller to the other at such a speed that the lines will pass a given point fast enough to suit theconvenience of the reader, a stop under his control being arranged to retard or check the movement of the mechanism, if desired. Supported above the strip is a lens, which so magnifies the characters that they may be read when the device is supported upon a desk or held at arms-length. And my invention also involves certain other novel and useful combinations or arrangements of parts and peculiarities of construction and operation, all of which will be hereinafter first fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

The accompanying drawing fully illustrates my invention.

A is the body of the device, constructed of any suitable material, and bound in accordance with the requirements of the user, the cover B opening at one side, as shown.

0 and O are rollers, mounted in a suitable frame within the body A. Roller O bears a toothed wheel, D, which engages with an ac tuating train arranged to give the roller the requisite motion.

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F is a stop, placed at the side of the train in such a position as to be in easy reach of the user of the device, by. which the movement of the strip may be retarded or arrested at pleasure.

H is the key-post, for winding up the mechanism.

E is a lens, supported above the manuscript G at such a distance as to magnify the characters sufficiently.

When constructed and arranged in accordance-with the foregoin g description, the manuscript, music, or other article is wound upon roller (J, the outer extremity being attached to roller 0. The train being started,the strip passes slowly upward until it is wound upon roller 0. To return it to roller 0, wheel L) is raised out of engagement with the driving mechanism, and by applying the key to post I the roll may be transferred to roller 0 for further use or removal.

My device will be found admirably adapted to the use of orators, clergynien, &c., as well I as musicians, and by placing a support beneath the paper and removing the lens the device will be found admirably adapted to the use of stenographers and reporters.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The automatic revolving manuscriptholder, consisting of the body A, made in the form of a book, and having the cover B opening at one side, lens E, supported beneath cover B, and rollers (J and G, the roller 0 having a toothed wheel, D, engaging with the springtrain, said train being provided with the stop F, the whole combined and arranged to operate substantially as shown and described.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 18th day of September, A. D. 188i.

H. E. TWIOHELL.

Witnesses:

A. M. PIERCE, LYNDON P. SMITH. 

